The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Seamus Heaney
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- At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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- Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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- In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.